by Claire Moran | Oct 12, 2025 | Blog, Research Design
Introduction Strong research design isn’t just about avoiding mistakes. It’s about actively building coherence, originality, and credibility. Once you’ve addressed common pitfalls, the next step is strengthening the elements that make your project stand out. In...
by Claire Moran | Oct 3, 2025 | Research Design
Introduction Too many researchers discover problems with their research design late in the process—at the ethics stage, during peer review, or even in the viva. The most common issue is not a lack of effort or ambition, but misalignment. Coherence is the golden thread...
by Claire Moran | Jul 20, 2025 | Blog, Systems of Meaning
In qualitative research, your question isn’t just a starting point—it’s a commitment.It commits you to a way of seeing, a way of asking, and a way of interpreting. It also commits you to particular layers of meaning: whether your focus is on the inner world, the...
by Claire Moran | Jul 6, 2025 | Blog, Systems of Meaning
In qualitative research, we’re not just asking what happens—we’re asking how people make sense of what happens, and how we can interpret people’s experience with respect to the broader social context. To do this well, we need to understand that meaning is not...
by Claire Moran | Jun 29, 2025 | Writing as Analysis
In qualitative research, analysis is often described as a layered process—starting with descriptive codes and building toward complex, interpretive themes. Yet too often, we think of writing as something linear: once we analyse, we write. But effective qualitative...
